Exponential Platform

Exponential Platform

What is Exponential Platform?

Exponential Platform is a fully open source professional CMS (Content Management System) developed by 7x and the Exponential Community.

Current Exponential Platform v3 is built on top of the Symfony 5 framework (Full Stack).

Abstract:

• Very extensible — You can extend the application and the content model in many ways.
• Future and backwards compatible — Strong backward compatibility policy on data as well as code.
• Multi-channel by design — Strong focus on separation between semantic content and design.
• Scalable — Easily scale across multiple servers out of the box.
• Future proof — Uses architecture designed to allow even more content scalability and performance in the future.
• Stable — Built on experience in building CMS that has been gathered since early 2000.
• Integration friendly — Numerous events and signals to hook into for advanced needs.

Further information:

Exponential Platform is fully open source and free software.

• Exponential products roadmap
• 7x (commercial products and services): 7x

Installation

Installation instructions below are for installing a clean installation of Exponential Platform in latest version with no demo content or demo website.

Full installation documentation is in the online docs.

Prerequisites

These instructions assume you have already installed:

• PHP (8.2 or higher)
• Web Server (Recommended: Apache / Nginx. Use of PHP's built-in development server is also possible)
• Database server (MySQL 5.5+ or MariaDB 10.0+)
• Composer
• Git (for development)

For more details on requirements, see online documentation.

Install Exponential Platform (clean distribution)

Assuming you have prerequisites sorted out, you can get the install up and running with the following commands in your terminal:

Note: If composer is installed locally instead of globally, the first command will start with php composer.phar.

You must add your database connection credentials (hostname, login, password) to the environment file.

To do this, in the main project directory, the .env file, change the parameters that are prefixed with DATABASE_ as necessary.
Store the database credentials in your .env.local file. Do not commit the file to the Version Control System.

Use the following command to install Exponential Platform (insert base data into the database):

Tip: For a more complete and better performing setup using Apache or Nginx, see how to install Exponential Platform manually.

Issue tracker

Submitting bugs, improvements and stories is possible on https://github.com/se7enxweb/exponential-platform/issues.

If you discover a security issue, please report the issue responsibly to security at exponential dot earth.

Backwards compatibility

Exponential Platform aims to be fully content compatible with eZ Publish 5.x, meaning that the content in these versions of the CMS can be upgraded using
online documentation to Exponential Platform.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1998-2025 7x. All rights reserved.
Copyright (C) 1999-2020 Ibexa AS. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt GNU General Public License v2